BMW Financial Services VB6-to-C# Migration Case Study
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In the past, Visual Basic (VB) upgrades were fairly painless and inexpensive because Microsoft made new versions of VB backward compatible, but things are different this time. An upgrade to .NET brings with it a radical shift in terms of architecture, design, deployment, features, and tools. The upgrade will be even more challenging if you decide to move from the forgiving VB compiler to the rigorous C# compiler. Confronted with declining vendor and community support and major migration challenges, BMW Financial Services in Dublin, Ohio set out to define a strategy that would allow us to adopt C# in an efficient and deliberate manner. Our objectives were to minimize disruption and costs and leverage the momentum of the platform change to move our capabilities forward. This article presents our strategy and some of the experiences we are encountering along the way.
Website: www.greatmigrations.com | Filesize: 86kb
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Virtualization for High-Performance Computing
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The specific demands of high-performance computing (HPC) often mismatch the assumptions and algorithms provided by legacy operating systems (OS) for common workload mixes. While feature- and application-rich OSes allow for exible and low-cost hardware configurations, rapid development, and exible testing and debugging, the mismatch comes at the cost of | oftentimes significant | performance degradation for HPC applications.
Website: www.research.ibm.com | Filesize: 76kb
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Hardware virtualization support for Afterburner/L4
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Full virtualization of the IA32 architecture can be achieved using hardware support. The L4 microkernel has been extended with mechanisms to leverage Intel’s VT-x technology. This work proposes a user level virtual machine monitor that complements L4’s virtualization extensions and realizes microkernel-based full virtualization of arbitrary operating systems. A prototype implementation within the Afterburner framework demonstrates the approach by successfully booting a current Linux kernel.
Website: i30www.ira.uka.de | Filesize: 286kb
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Securing the future of your VAX & Alpha Software with Hardware Virtualization Software
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Benefits
• No migration, just replace hardware
• No application changes
• No change means less risk
• Small effort compared to migration
• Quick transition
• Inexpensive
• Efficient / Effective
Website: www.woertman.com | Filesize: 1865kb
No of Page(s): 10
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Silverlight Overview
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Silverlight 1.1 will contain a substantial subset of the .NET 3.5 runtime (also running cross-browser and cross-platform) and will enable a new generation of smart/rich internet applications. Silverlight 1.1 has the potential to become an ASP.NET or even an HTML application killer, especially where sophisticated, feature-rich applications are involved. Silverlight will essentially host a full .NET runtime engine within a sandbox on the client computer and allow a .NET smart client application to run on any platform, all with the same deployment characteristics as a thin-client application (once the Silverlight plug-in has been installed). Essentially, Silverlight creates a “best of both worlds” environment, in which users can experience responsive, media-rich internet applications that leverage local computing power and resources, while administrators enjoy the benefits of ?notouch ? deployments and centralized control.
Website: www.devforce.com.au | Filesize: 39kb
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MySQL GUI Tools Manual
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The MySQL GUI Tools provide a suite of desktop applications for the administration of MySQL instances and for building and manipulating the data within MySQL databases.
This book provides a combined guide to the following tools:
. MySQL Administrator - provides administration tools and utilities to monitor and administer databases, users privileges and data within a MySQL instance.
. MySQL Query Browser - provides an interface for building and testing queries interactively.
. MySQL Migration Toolkit - used to migrate existing database information to MySQL (Windows only).
Website: downloads.mysql.com | Filesize: 1970kb
No of Page(s): 148
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A Comparative Analysis of Programming Languages for GIS
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Many GIS departments in organizations throughout the world have developed customized tools using an Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) proprietary language named Avenue. Avenue is reaching the end of its life cycle, and will soon be unsupported. ESRI has moved on to new versions of its software, which is not backward compatible with Avenue. This project explores the various options available to GIS professionals in order to bring their customized tools up to date using the latest software.
Website: www.gis.smumn.edu | Filesize: 106kb
No of Page(s): 13
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